Our carefully
crafted design incorporates the enduring laurel wreath minted
on coins, currency, and medals throughout history. Our professional
designers envisioned an elegant chip that would be just as suitable
today as it would be a hundred years from now. We arrived at
a classically simple yet distinctive design. We purposely steered
clear of any tacky faux-casino logos or fantasy themes. You
don’t see these on cards. We felt you shouldn’t
have to look at them on your chips either.

The InPlay
Clay line is the successor to the popular Modern
Clay line, the first great clay poker chip that
we designed and built from the ground up. Our goal
with the InPlay Clay line was to go above and beyond
“a great clay poker chip” and create
the finest home game poker chip on the market.

How can you
improve a great clay poker chip?

When poker players
were telling us they wanted chips, “exactly like the casinos
use”, we took them literally and designed and produced
the exact same chips that casinos order, straight from the manufacturer,
with the dust still on them. That’s what they were screaming
for, so that’s what we gave them.

We could have stopped
right there and still have had what is widely considered the
premier clay poker chip on the market today. Of course, we're
not really ones to rest on our laurels.

In our continuing
relentless pursuit of a better poker chip, we asked ourselves
if it was possible to make even better chips. So we decided
to delve into the mind of home game poker players and ask them
what reservations they had (if any) about the top clay poker
chips on the market. What we found out was a little surprising.
While they loved clay poker chips, there were a number of reservations
that were widely shared. They biggest complaints were as follows:

The chip
edges are too sharp - The most common complaint we
heard was that the clay poker chips people were buying for
their home games had sharper edges then they remember casino
chips having. Since casinos use chips for about seven years
on average before destroying them, the average chip you see
in a casino is about 3.5 years old and thus has nicely rounded
edges. In fact, most people have never even seen a brand new
casino chip, so when they were asking for chips “exactly
like the casinos use,” they really were asking for a
chip that’s been worn in for 3.5 years.

The chips
are too rough –We heard a lot of people complaining
that the face of the clay chips they were buying for their
home games were overly rough, unlike what they were used to
in casinos. This complaint is related to the issue of the
edges being too sharp (people are used to worn in chips, not
new chips right out of the factory), but has a slightly different
root cause. The mold for most clay chips used in casinos is
intentionally made with a rough, textured surface. The exact
reasons for this intentionally textured surface is debatable,
even among industry insiders, but the general consensus is
that it makes for better friction between chips which makes
them stay in stacks better. Nonetheless, most casino chips
become smooth after just a few years in play and still stack
just fine, and casinos continue to use them another five or
more years. As we found out, home game users far prefer the
feel of the smooth “worn in” chips. The tradeoff
in ability to stack is negligible, if noticeable at all. From
what we can tell, the reason casino chips are intentionally
made rough, may be just be based on unsubstantiated notions,
or worse yet, just plain habit.

Inlay
design is severely lacking – A widely held
belief is that casino chip design, namely inlay design, is
fairly poor. Not only for home game poker chips, but for actual
casino chips as well. There is a lot of frustration on the
part of home game poker players when it comes to design.

Home game
mold designs are lacking – Home game poker
players tend to agree that the molds the casinos use are pretty
nice. Their thoughts about the home game poker market mold
designs are quite different. The general consensus seems to
be, “Why is it so difficult? Especially when you’ve
got great casino mold designs to model them after?”

The birth
of a legend

Knowing exactly what
home poker players were dissatisfied with in the currently available
clay poker chip market, our task was simple.

Give them a clay
poker chip that mimics a casino chip that’s been in
play in a casino for about 3.5 years.

Create a mold
design on par with top casino molds.

Go outside of
the currently lacking poker chip design world and get fresh
design inspiration from other industries where design is considered
outstanding.

The resulting effort
created a rather innovative leap forward in clay poker chips,
in terms of both design and the all important touch and feel
component.

Our InPlay Clay line
utilizes our throwback Cigar & Snifter mold, what some insiders
in the poker chip industry consider the finest mold ever produced.
The engraving design features an intricate cigar and snifter
design, repeated 8 times around the track of the chip. Two concentric
circles frame this repeating design, one inside and one outside.

The innovation that
really sets the InPlay Clay line apart from every poker chip
in the world is the innovative (and intentional) smooth feel
of the track and edge of the chip combined with the popular
textured, cross-hatched inlay surface. Unlike all other clay
chips in the world, which come out of the factory with a rough
surface, the InPlay Clay chip has an unmistakable smooth feel.
It feels just like a chip that has been in use in a casino for
3-5 years, exactly what home users have been screaming about
for years.

Lastly, our idea
to bring good design to the poker chip market is a very simple
and straightforward idea. If the industry is plagued with bad
design, then go outside of the industry for your talent. Give
that talent full autonomy to design a poker chip as if it were
the first chip ever designed, and intended to establish a benchmark
for all future designs. Have them borrow from award winning
designs in other design disciplines, as well as completely unrelated
industries that are known for great design. Our InPlay Clay
line very successfully took this approach and borrowed from
proven international currency design.

InPlay Clay
line features:

Industry
Leading Innovation! Smooth clay touch and feel built
right into the mold of the chip – A major innovation
for home game poker chips that gives them the “InPlay”
feel of a poker chip that’s been properly broken-in
within a casino environment.

Industry
Leading Innovation! Each chip in pre-oiled for optimum
touch, feel, and sound – Borrowing from a little
known phenomenon in the casino chip collecting world, we break-in
these clay poker chips with a labor-intensive oil treatment
process that mimics exposure to hand oil, a process that can
take 10 hours or more per chip set for a chip collector. The
result is a finely polished chip that livens up the chip colors
and provides that unmistakable “InPlay” feel.

100% Authentic
Casino Chips - Same clay chips, same manufacturer,
as those used in numerous popular Las Vegas casinos including
the prestigious Mandalay Bay

Our
Archetype casino chip line brings the exact same
full-color design and single composite material
construction chips, that you’ll see in many
Vegas casinos today, right into your next home poker
game. Casinos that use this chip include landmarks
such as the
Luxor, the
Palms, Bally’s/Paris,
the
Excalibur, as well as most cruise ship casinos,
and many US casinos outside of Vegas and around
the world. While most Vegas casinos still use a
clay chip that is a very close relative of our Modern
Clay poker chip line, chips just like our Archetype
casino chip line are popping up more and more in
Vegas as they allow for much higher resolution graphics
and security.

Our professionally
designed Archetype casino chip line takes full advantage of
the high-resolution graphics and rich color spectrum provided
by the unique manufacturing process of these ultra-durable 10-gram
chips. The colors and design came out so well on these chips,
you may have a hard time taking your eyes off them. Quite simply,
they’re stunning. Additionally, and unique to this style
chips, the denominations are printed on the rolling edge of
each chip in addition to on the face.

The touch
and feel of our Archetype casino chip line has a distinctive
smooth yet textured linen finish. They’re smooth, but
not slippery, which is very important. Because they are not
clay, the tendency is to assume the touch, feel, and sound of
these chips is similar to all other composite-type chips. This
couldn’t be farther from the truth as the feel of these
chips has been refined over almost two decades. They feel 100
times better than poor imitations, cheap plastic chips, or the
so-called “clay” chips that come out of China. Other
composites can feel anywhere on the spectrum from sand paper
to hard plastic, which is why you won't find any of them in
Vegas.

The Archetype
casino chip line is the only composite chip real players should
consider. Go with the Archetype, go clay, or go home.

The same
company that creates clay casino chips for many
Vegas casinos, including the prestigious Mandalay
Bay, manufactures our Modern Clay poker chip
line. We’ve taken great strides to ensure
the Vegas authenticity of our Modern Clay line goes
right down to the last detail. You simply can't
find a more authentic Vegas clay chip... not even
if you grab one off the table at your favorite Vegas
casino.

Our Modern
Clay poker chip line was designed from the ground up over a
five-month period to embody everything discriminating poker
players’ want in a clay poker chip. We brought together
seasoned gamblers, professional designers, and the family behind
the most popular clay chip in the history of Vegas, the original
Top Hat & Cane Chip. Our task? Dream up the perfect clay
poker chip and make it a reality. Out of that collaboration
came the unique and purposely designed “Courts & Numerals”
mold, a new classic.

We found
out pretty quickly that it’s the details that count when
crafting the perfect clay poker chip. What makes this clay poker
chip special? Every element of its design was knowingly designed
to make it just right, such as:

The
unmistakable clay touch and feel – the foundation
of any great poker chip

A
well defined and distinctive mold – balanced,
yet artful

Highly
refined base and dual edge spot color combinations
– the colors are a key, yet often overlooked, element
of a chips beauty

A
suction-inducing inlay cavity – a Vegas secret
that keeps the chips stacked even when craps dice are flying
everywhere

A
textured cross-hatched inlay surface
– not flat and lifeless just because it’s easier
to make

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Our
Neophyte poker chip line represents an attractive
mid-range poker chip that is ideally suited towards
value-conscious consumers. Neophyte, by definition,
means beginner or novice, so it’s appropriate
that this line was added to our offerings as a starter
set for customers that weren’t quite ready
to drop $500-$600 on a set of true casino-quality
chips such as our Modern
Clay or Archetype
lines.

The foundation
for the Neophyte poker chip is currently what we’ve found
to be the best mid-range poker chip available on the market,
which we’ve substantially enhanced with our classically
designed 4-color Laurel wreath and dice silkscreen inlay that
comes in 8 denominations. The combination of the economical
base and the 4-color inlay (reminiscent of what you’d
find on our true casino lines) makes for good quality, denominated
chips that can be offered at a value-conscious price.

These chips
are not clay or “clay composite”, as no inexpensive
poker chips are, no matter what anyone tells you. All inexpensive
poker chips are injection molded and it’s physically impossible
to injection mold clay. They’re all some kind of plastic
composite, and are typically made in China. Whatever you do
when buying inexpensive poker chips elsewhere, make sure you
get a sample first as there are two predominant types, one that
feels a bit like a hockey puck, and one that is unmistakably
hard cheap plastic (sometimes called ABS). We strongly recommend
staying away from ABS. The Neophyte poker chip line contains
a somewhat rubbery substance, which makes it approximate a clay
chip far better than any other inexpensive poker chip out there.

Since this will be a starter set for many and to
ensure an easy path to ownership of a real clay
poker chip set, all customers who buy a Neophyte
set of 300 chips or more can participate in our
Trade-up
Program and get a trade-up option worth up to
$100 off one of our real clay poker chip sets (see
details).